IMDb plot summary: A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school's prom queen.
Directed by Robert Iscove. Starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, and Matthew Lillard.
She's All That is a romantic teen comedy from the 90s starring Rachel Leigh Cook as the unpopular artistic girl and Freddie Prinze Jr. as the popular jock who makes a bet that he can make any girl homecoming queen, even Cook. The two start hanging out, but of course Prinze starts falling in love with her and Cook will find out any moment it was all a bet. The biggest problem with this -- well, aside from the hilarious "girl takes her glasses off and is suddenly hot" trope -- is that I don't buy the chemistry between the two leads at all. When they start to talk about having actual feelings for each other, it almost startled me because there was almost no indication of that up until that point. A rom com's job is pretty simple: have its audience live vicariously through its characters as they discover a new romance, and this seems to be missing the most important steps. Cook's journey is more about fighting her own demons by herself than it is anything to do with him, and his journey is almost nonexistent. On top of that, despite describing it as a rom com, there's not much actual humor in it. Overall, a pretty uninspiring watch.
How it entered my Flickchart:
She's All That < Frank
She's All That > Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
She's All That < Adventures in Babysitting
She's All That < In the Mood for Love
She's All That < The 5th Wave
She's All That < Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989)
She's All That < 13 Going on 30
She's All That < Christmas on the Square
She's All That > The Little Drummer Boy
She's All That > Who's That Knocking At My Door
She's All That > How to Deal
She's All That > Wrath of Man
Final spot: #2675 out of 3583, or 25%.
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